They’re starting to put glass on the Shard. It is the Shard of Glass, so it was bound to start happening eventually. Well, now, it has started:

Taken last Thursday. That’s Guy’s Hospital reflected in the glass.

Viewing from a distance, little appears to be changing just now, Shardwise. All the visible action now is at the lower levels, where the floors are stacking up around the central concrete tower. But for that, you have to get close. Which I did, so you don’t have to.

In other Shard news, it now seems that Transport for London will not be occupying it after all. They’ve now been bought out. Partly this is because office rents in London have gone up. But my guess would be that TfL was looking to make cuts in its future spending plans, and what better cut could there be than for it to be paid to not spend tons more money on swanky new offices? So a deal was there to be made. TfL wanted out, and was willing to get out for far less than the extra that the developers can now make on other tenants. Another way of putting it is that TfL have been let off the hook.